pow
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Just need to find an ignition live on a 106 - NOT BEHIND THE STEREO!!!
Anywhere else, to turn the amp on and off. The stereo has no rem wire, if you connect it to the car side ign. live, it puts the amp in protetion mode after uve started it. Other than that, put a resistor in the wire?
Help please! 
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Cupra Steve
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Do you have a test light?
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pow
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No but i can make one... got a 12v bulb and holder in the garage!
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Robin
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Cig lighter?
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pow
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Perm 
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Cupra Steve
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Well you'll need a conductable point to stab the wires then turn the ignition on / off, if the bulb turns on / off you have an ignition live.
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Cupra Steve
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Interior light should have an ignition live.
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pow
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Will it be safe to connect it to any iginiton live. like splice into the wire? Wont fuse/break anything will it?
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pow
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Steve, thanks... ill look into it 
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Robin
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Interior light will be a permanent live as it comes on with the door open and the key in your hand.
Cig lighter really shouldn't be permanent, that can't be right, it definitely should be switched, so that you don't drain your battery leaving your phone charger in...
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Cupra Steve
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No worries. I would go and look for one in mine but it's in the garage atm.
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Cupra Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
Interior light will be a permanent live as it comes on with the door open and the key in your hand.
Cig lighter really shouldn't be permanent, that can't be right, it definitely should be switched, so that you don't drain your battery leaving your phone charger in...
It will as when you turn the ignition on / off the light turns on / off i think!
There will be loads.
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pow
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Interior light has 3 wires coming off it, all see if one does the job lol!
Ciggy lighter... im gunna go try that again... but pretty sure its perm live!
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Cupra Steve
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Cig lighter's are 50/50 some are perm some only work with ignition on. Not sure on the 106.
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pow
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Her ciggy lighter is deff perm live. Interior light doesnt seem good either. Found out that wire coming off fuse 4 (only a radio fuse) is ignition live... is it safe to tap into that?
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Cupra Steve
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aslong as it is fused i don't know of any reason why it isn't?
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Cupra Steve
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Does the HU turn on / off with the ignition?
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pow
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Yeh it does, ive got the rem wire coming off the ignition live back there now, but when you start the car (nbot with the nition on) it turns the amp into protection mode, im guessing that its tooo much current so that sends it into protection.
The map reading light has an ignition live - but she hasnt got one 
Thinking about that could I put a resistor in line with the remote wire to stop this "surge" or current?
[Edited on 22-05-2007 by pow]
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Yeh it does, ive got the rem wire coming off the ignition live back there now, but when you start the car (nbot with the nition on) it turns the amp into protection mode, im guessing that its tooo much current so that sends it into protection.
The map reading light has an ignition live - but she hasnt got one
Thinking about that could I put a resistor in line with the remote wire to stop this "surge" or current?
[Edited on 22-05-2007 by pow]
remote is 0.5a max-simply banging a 12v on will make amp run in safe.
u need remote wire only
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pow
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O... thanks...
How do i "make" a remote wire tho? She really doesnt want to buy a new headunit. I mean, there must be a way to "cap" the amps and volts going down that wire with something from maplins?
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quote:
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O... thanks...
How do i "make" a remote wire tho? She really doesnt want to buy a new headunit. I mean, there must be a way to "cap" the amps and volts going down that wire with something from maplins?
i aint never wired an amp from standard H/U before, however the majority of amps do require 0.5a max-what is the tolerance of the amp for remote powering?
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Robin
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My amp worked in my Corsa, using a remote from the cig lighter. It was fine.
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pow
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I dont know, because the amp got given to her, but im guessing its 0.5A like mine and my mates etc.
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Dom
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remote wires are usually 12V and usually take 0.5A max (it's the max draw the remote wire will take, so aslong as you have remote wire to handle the current it should be fine) so connecting it to an ignition live shouldn't be a problem.
I would try the amp in another car though and see if it goes into protection mode as it sounds like it could be a fault to be honest - it certainly shouldn't be going into protection mode.
Failing that you can get a number of triggers that will trigger when a signal is produced on high-level speaker connections or low-level phono/RCA etc - might be another route.
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